The people and government entities named in Eric Brandt’s federal civil rights lawsuit could soon be receiving a visit from the U.S. Marshals Service.

Last Wednesday, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Wang issued an order for the U.S. Marshals to attempt to serve summons to the 15 people and three governmental entities specifically named in the lawsuit, according to federal court records.

Morgan County Sheriff Jim Crone said had been watching for something to happen with the lawsuit, but he had not received such a summons from the U.S. Marshals Service as of Monday afternoon. Nor had the sheriff’s office, the county or Undersheriff Dave Martin, to Crone’s knowledge.

The sheriff could not be reached Tuesday, as he is in a training for several days.

Monday night, multiple others named in the suit said they had not been served summons at that point, including Brush City Administrator Monty Torres, Brush Councilman Heath Becker and Brush City Attorney Robert “Bo” Chapin.

Further calls to those named in the suit Tuesday did not turn up anyone who had been served summonses as of Tuesday afternoon.

Brandt’s lawsuit stems from what happened at the Dec. 18, 2017, Brush City Council meeting, where the Adams County resident spoke during the meeting’s public comment period. He used many profanities in telling the council how he felt about its decision to censure Councilwoman Jeanine Anderson.

Brandt wound up getting thrown out of that council meeting. He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, obstruction of government operations and disrupting a peaceful assembly.

In February, Brandt filed his federal lawsuit claiming his civil rights were violated by those named in the suit. He alleges removing him from the Brush Council meeting and then arresting him was a violation of his constitutional rights to address his grievances to the government and free speech.

Brandt’s arraignment in his criminal case in Morgan County District Court has been set for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Morgan County Justice Center.

He missed the earlier court day in Morgan County after turning himself in to court in Adams County on another free-speech related case. He was put in jail on that case.

Regan Benson, a friend of Brandt’s who had gone with him to the Brush City Council meetings, said Tuesday afternoon that she expected Brandt to be back in Morgan County Wednesday for that arraignment, albeit still in custody.

She said she was only speaking on Brand’t behalf “because Eric can’t do it for himself.”

With the lawsuit, “He just feels like there needs to be some focus on those civil rights issues,” Benson said.

She said she will be interested to see how things play out with the U.S. Marshals Service serving the summons for the lawsuit.

“What’s interesting is I don’t think there’s any way to know how that happens,” Benson said. “The marshals don’t give you their plan of action.”